April 22 marks the 40th year Earth Day has been celebrated around the world.

Over the last several years, I have watched Earth Day become increasingly a holiday about green products. And that is not to say that green products are bad – I’m ecstatic that there are so many wonderful alternatives to the things I need on a daily basis. I remember when I first became an environmentalist in college in the 90s. It was a tough world to be in – many people thought we were nuts. There were few alternatives to eating sustainably – farm raised anything couldn’t be found, organic was not a word I ever remember using, and very very few clothes or other daily items were sustainably made. So there are good things about a push toward green products and green consumerism, for sure.

But this year I’m searching for a more internal, reflective celebration of Earth Day….

Come read the rest at the co-op!

I would love to read your thoughts as well – please stop and leave a comment!

Thanks to Random.org, it is incredibly easy to generate a random number!

Comment #33 is

miriam!

Congratulations, miriam – please contact me and we’ll get it off and running to you.  And thanks everyone for participating.  Since this was such a large response, I will host more giveaways soon!

Hope you’re having a lovely weekend! Last week was an incredibly exhausting week for me, so I’m giving myself some R&R time this weekend.  I’ll be back on Monday to announce the winner of the DivaCup Giveaway and more!

Have a lovely valentine’s day, everyone, and don’t forget to keep your love green!

Just wanted to say a quick thanks to Rob.  Not only did he recently give One Green Generation a blog award, but he has also been a loyal part of this blog’s community since the very beginning.  Thanks, Rob!

If you’re curious what Rob’s doing, check out his blog, Rob’s World.

While I’m linking with love and calling out members of our community, I also wanted to thank some of our top referrers here in the past couple of weeks:

• Simple Green Frugal Co-op
• The Green Phone Booth
• Towards Sustainability
• Fake Plastic Fish
• The Fresh Loaf
  
• As well as the search engines StumbleUpon, Reddit, Twitter and Google

Have a lovely Sunday, everyone – and please keep popping in to say a bit, if you haven’t already – I don’t know about you all, but I LOVE reading about each of you!!  Thank you all for having the courage to come out for a peep.

With Much Love,

Melinda & Matt

I hope you all have had a lovely week.  I apologize – I hadn’t meant to take the week off from blogging.  Life caught up with me this week.  Many of you know about a year ago I started a new business – the worst time in a very long time to start a business!  So as you might expect, there has been some struggle to get it off the ground.  Well, we had an amazing week.  In addition to our bread and butter clients, we will sign a large client on Monday, and it looks like more large clients may be signing soon.  Hooray!

Apologies to you all, though.  I need to find a better way to incorporate writing into my daily routine even when I’m busy.  I welcome any suggestions you all have about ways to do that effectively!

We have some good friends in town this weekend. I’m working on some fabulous posts as well as a new challenge (!).  But it may be tomorrow or it may not be until Monday before you hear from me again.  See you soon!